1. For the love of God they set this up outside the gates. It's not like they had you go into the actual showers while violin player seranaded you outside2. Google gas and google mist. They don't even look the same.3. If you act this viscerally to mist showers, maybe they should have turned the hose on your stanky ass.

Normally I'd say this sounds like an honest mistake, and really I suppose it was, but they should have known better. This is perhaps THE single most notorious concentration/extermination camp. Pretty sure anyone in their right mind would avoid anything resembling a shower, an oven or anything of that nature.

Seriously, people are getting butthurt that someone put misting cooling stations near a major tourist attraction? Has anyone noticed that its frigging summer and over 90 degrees outside and 500 degrees in?

Arkham:Seriously, people are getting butthurt that someone put misting cooling stations near a major tourist attraction? Has anyone noticed that its frigging summer and over 90 degrees outside and 500 degrees in?

Pretty much THIS. If there were no cooling stations you can bet those same people would be pissing and moaning...and suing as soon as one of them fell to heatstroke.

Years ago I worked at Deutsche Bank in Canada. They were redesigning our offices, and a few of us put in the request/suggestion (ultimately rejected) that they put in a small corporate gym. There were lots of internal jokes about the Germans being good at designing showers.

Oh, ffs! I hope the tag is for the offended idiots. A misting station outside to keep tourists from keeling over with heat stroke is nothing like the farking shower chambers of death in WWII. Anyone that makes that connection and throws a fit needs to get some perspective and a clue.

nekom:Normally I'd say this sounds like an honest mistake, and really I suppose it was, but they should have known better. This is perhaps THE single most notorious concentration/extermination camp. Pretty sure anyone in their right mind would avoid anything resembling a shower, an oven or anything of that nature.

Oy, vey. Hop in!

It's a convenience. It doesn't represent every blessed oven that has ever been constructed.

Nor does a flag represent every ugly intention of those who have flown it.

"Or dear God! Don't ask me HERE if I left the oven on again!"

These misting devices are very cool, and I think I will beat all you entrepreneurial FARKers to the punch in a certain southern city.

Sounds like the mister was in the entrance/queuing area. Had they put the mister in the "shower room" there might be a point to make about that.

'With all due respect it reminds me of the gas chambers.'

No it doesn't. You've never been in a gas chamber so you would have no idea what that was like. What would you say if you visited over the winter and it was snowing? Would you yell at the teenager in the info booth because the snow looks like ashes from the ovens that that offends you? Auschwitz people were just trying to make non-outraged Jews a little more comfortable in the summer months so take your outraged Jew bit someplace else..

"I think that places like this need to think of the connotations these types of things can inspire," Israeli tourist Meyer Bolka said. "If you want to cool the people down, you need to find another solution..."

Um, forgive me if I sound daft, but if water's coming out of the plumbing doesn't that kind of imply that there's no poison gas involved? So it would look nothing like the gassing that actually killed people unless you were looking for a reason to be butthurt.

No it doesn't. You've never been in a gas chamber so you would have no idea what that was like. What would you say if you visited over the winter and it was snowing? Would you yell at the teenager in the info booth because the snow looks like ashes from the ovens that that offends you? Auschwitz people were just trying to make non-outraged Jews a little more comfortable in the summer months so take your outraged Jew bit someplace else..

"As soon as I got off the bus I walked into the shower contraption," said Israeli tourist Meyer Bolka. "I was in shock. It was a punch to the gut. I walked up to the reception and asked the worker there about the showers, she said it was a hot day. I told her: 'With all due respect it reminds me of the gas chambers.' She told me she is very sorry."